Honestly, guys, I just don't see this working. The only reason I think Amiga Inc. has a prayer is that they are trying to move the Amiga name into new, VIABLE markets. The Amiga community is NOT a viable market and hasn't been for some time. If it's a pet project of yours, cool, but I know from personal experience how easy it is to start a project and how hard it can be to finish it.
My example would be when I started the mozAmiga project (at mozamiga.mozdev.org), hoping to be a project manager for some Amiga coders to port Mozilla to the new Amiga. Did I get e-mails of support and offers of help from the community? Sure I did! Did I get any real coding help? No!
Honestly, most of your support e-mails from ANN will probably wind up to be blowing smoke up your rear end, and most won't put up like they say they will now. It's a lot easier to e-mail someone and say "I'd buy it!" than it is to actually cough up the cash when the product comes out.
Then consider that your hardware will NOT be mass-produced simply because of the miniscule market your making it for (a fraction of the total Classic Amiga community, which can't even support itself in total, much less in fractions). I, at least, don't want to pay top dollar for a souped-up old machine.
I think if you did manage to get a product out at some point, your initial product won't be capable of running new AmigaOne programs and will be released a good two years (according at least to one estimate in a post above) AFTER the AmigaOne is released. By then the only people who will care about a ColdFire Amiga will be the diehard "Classic or kill me" Amiga fanatics left in the community.
Really, I just don't see the point. But good luck!
James
